A while back I acquired a pair of 4320 in need of restoration. With it I got 3 15 inch woofers, all a little bit different.
I got 1 LE15A that works, 1 LE15B that measures open, and one empty basket. With it I also got 3 aftermarket Sound Speaker Repair LE15A recone kits.
I'm trying to figure out my best option is here. The LE15B doesn't crunch or scratch, cone moves freely, so I'm wondering if perhaps a wire has come loose, and it could be repaired, as I would like to keep it all JBL OEM stock parts if possible. Then theres the issue of the A vs B, as far as I can tell, the different between the A and B is the foam vs cloth surround. Would it be possible to remove the cloth and replace it with foam, so I will then have another LE15A? Assuming the coil can be repaired of course.
The other option to me is to remove the LE15B cone and replace it with an aftermarket kit, then recone the empty basket also with an aftermarket kit. I want to avoid this, as I know that the aftermarket parts are substandard. But since the genuine JBL LE15A kit is no longer available, I don't see any other option to me. I would then be left with a single original LE15A. I have found elsewhere in the UK a single 2215B that has been reconed with a genuine 2215H kit, so I could potentially have a pair of working original LE15, but its not cheap and I've ran out of money for this project.
I had planned on getting the drivers regaussed if I were reconing them. I'm in the UK so its not easy to get things regaussed, I've found one guy who wants to charge £40 per driver. I found someone else who said they could do it much cheaper but they're still in the process of setting up their machine so I would have to wait on that. I've just opened a music studio and would like to get these monitors up and running in the next month, so I'm unsure on what approach would be best.
The working LE15A looks decent, someone replaced the foam at one point it seems. LE15B also looks good, so it would pain me to scrap what seems to be a good condition LE15 cone. Also the working LE15A is labelled as 8 ohms, but measure more like 16, so not quite sure whats going on there.
attached are some pics